We are Montreal's scuba diving and snorkelling experts, offering scuba related training, equipment, travel, events and servicing that are second to none.

We fully support Project AWARE and their work because we believe that our community of scuba divers holds the key to changing global perceptions about sharks, debris and ocean conservation.

To us, marine conservation is not a fad -it's part of our DNA and one of the reasons we started scuba diving in the first place.

The water is our home and we want to protect and share it.

We offer a full range of scuba diving courses right here in Montreal delivered by highly qualified PADI certified instructors whose sole focus is your safety and enjoyment. Our small class size and high instructor to student ratios set us apart from other dive centres.

If you're already a diver, our club offers plenty of ways to meet new dive buddies through local outings and organised trips to some of the best dive spots in the world. We can also help you take your diving to the next level with specialty and advanced courses, all the way through to professional level certification and technical diving training.

Our passion for the environment means that we promote Project Aware initiatives in our dive centre and regularly organise training or events that helps our divers get closer to our marine ecosystem and preserve it for future generations. We make donations to Project Aware for every scuba diver that learns to dive with us, given them one of Project Aware`s special certification cards.

Recently we announced that we've become the first dive centre in Canada (and in Montreal, and in Quebec...) to go 100% Aware. We were also one of the first to offer the AWARE Shark Conservation Diver Course, and year after year we invest time and money in underwater clean-ups and dives against debris.

Why do we do all this? Because we're passionate about the environment, ocean conservation and preservation of all of the beautiful, natural creatures on our planet. It's what drives us, what inspires us and what led us to scuba diving in the first place.

For his final activity during his stay here in Montreal, Finn visited the local Pointe-Claire Scouts troop to help Action Scuba instructors inform and educate the youngsters about the plight of sharks and the importance of marine conservation.

The team from Action Scuba showed the Scouts photos from their various scuba adventures around the world, highlighting the importance of a wide variety of fish and marine creatures, and outlined the critical role sharks play in maintaining that balanced ecosystem.

Since Finn came to join us in Montreal at the end of October, he has had a busy month. He met with many people in store to tell them about shark conservation, helped us launch our new AWARE Shark Conservation Diver course, and then he took a much needed holiday to Bonaire with the rest of the Action Scuba team.

Like northern scuba divers, Finn realised that although winter diving in the cold Canadian waters can be fun, it can also be fun to head down south and heat up in the tropics. Which is what we at Action Scuba do several times a year.

We're delighted to have Finn visiting us here in Montreal, Canada. Although he arrived just after our summer dive season ended, he's still have a blast. He's been greeting customers in our store and helping them understand the plight of sharks today.

Finn has also been able to get out and enjoy the beautiful fall weather here in Montreal and is enjoying seeing the leaves change!

We're sizing Finn up for a drysuit so he can get in a few local dives - we dive all round here!

Finn has arrived in Montreal, Canada, and to celebrate his arrival, we at Action Scuba have launched the new AWARE Shark Conservation Diver specialty course AND have kicked off a campaign to convince lawmakers in Montreal to ban shark fin products in the city.

Finn is now on display at our local dive centre for a few days so divers can stop by, sign the shark petition and take their photos with Finn.

Every weekend we run a scuba diving charter on our boat, Got Air, in the beautiful 1000 Islands. This weekend was no different, except that on Sunday morning, as we headed out to dive the Lillie Parsons shipwreck in the Brockville narrows, we encountered a large surprise floating in the middle of the St Lawrence River: a full size, rusty hot water tank that someone had carelessly and improperly disposed of.

At Action Scuba we run dive charters in Canada`s beautiful 1000 Islands every weekend, and we do most of our certification dives in and around this area. So we spend a lot of time at the bottom of the St Lawrence River, which is the second longest river in Canada and one of the longest rivers in the world. And what we see at the bottom of this waterway is lots of evidence of the general population`s misplaced belief that our rivers, lakes and oceans are a great place to dispose of garbage.